In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a class certification hearing in a wage and hour suit against Little Caesars. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.

A Michigan crane rental company must pay about $43,000 to a group of union benefit funds, a Michigan federal judge has ruled, agreeing with the funds that the company didn't uphold the contribution obligations... (more story)

A waste management company violated federal labor law by interrogating, disciplining and firing employees after the workers launched a union organizing campaign with a Teamsters local, a National Labor Relatio... (more story)

This week, a New York federal magistrate judge will consider whether to give preliminary approval to a $162 million settlement resolving a proposed class and collective action that accused a New York Medicaid ... (more story)

The United Auto Workers president ended a union official's oversight of UAW's Stellantis department in retaliation for the official's refusal to do favors for him, the monitor appointed to oversee the union in... (more story)

New York City has moved to bar a food delivery app from operating in the city unless it begins paying its workers the legally required minimum wage, after the company's own reports showed it paid workers as li... (more story)

An Iowa federal judge has ordered Kraft Heinz Co. to submit a pension eligibility grievance to arbitration, finding the company's collective bargaining agreement requires it to arbitrate the dispute and reject... (more story)

Reed Smith LLP asked a New Jersey court on Thursday to stay a former attorney's gender discrimination suit against it while the attorney's appeal of the scope of the damages in the suit plays out.

An insurance brokerage asked a North Carolina federal judge for an early win in a former employee benefits advisor's suit alleging she was pushed out after raising concerns about maternity leave, pumping accom... (more story)

Former Detroit Club server Miya Shani Hooks audibly sobbed Thursday as a federal jury found the club and its owner liable for retaliating against three former employees who said they had spoken out against rac... (more story)

A SpaceX attorney Thursday urged the Ninth Circuit to revive its bid to arbitrate claims by eight former employees who say they were wrongfully terminated for complaining about CEO Elon Musk's sexually charged... (more story)

Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams says Meta Platforms has trampled her First Amendment rights by running to an arbitrator to prevent her from disclosing the social media company's "illegal and inde... (more story)

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on Thursday moved to scrub portions of its regulations barring federal funding recipients from engaging in conduct with an unintentional disparate impact, saying they ar... (more story)

A South Carolina federal jury awarded an employee $400,000 in his age discrimination suit alleging that chemical giant BASF Corp. declined to promote him and tapped a younger, less qualified employee for a more senior role.

A Colorado federal judge on Friday refused to block a plaintiff in a related state court case from contacting nurses in a $14 million wage and hour settlement, finding the health system and workers had not sho... (more story)

DHL Express failed to provide legally required meal and rest breaks and denied workers compensation for missed break time in violation of state and local wage laws, a worker alleged in Washington state court.

The Ninth Circuit has ordered a Washington federal court to increase an attorney fee award for farmworkers who successfully challenged the federal government's agricultural wage survey methodology, finding the... (more story)

A Washington federal magistrate judge on Thursday sent a proposed wage-and-hour class action against a subsidiary of Extended Stay America back to state court, finding the hotel operator did not show that the ... (more story)

A Colorado state judge has dismissed a free speech claim by a former public defender, who alleged he was fired after making court filings and seeking a hearing to warn that crushing caseloads and a cyberattack... (more story)

A logistics provider that helps manage trailers on company grounds agreed to pay up to $1.7 million to resolve a collective action alleging it misclassified drivers as overtime-exempt, according to an unoppose... (more story)

A Colorado federal judge on Wednesday denied a motion to add new plaintiff members and classes to a Fair Labor Standards Act class and collective action from travel nurses accusing two staffing agencies of unpaid overtime.